- 44AB18:
- Standard archaeological designation for Monasukapanough site; Virginia is the 44th state alphabetically; AB is Albemarle County's designation; Monasukapanough is designated as site 18.
- Accretional Burial Mound:
- Type of burial mound found in the Virginia Piedmont; each was estimated to have contained several thousand bodies at one time.
- Bear Mountain:
- Area of Amherst County, Virginia, where the Monacans settled after 1800; site of their annual Homecoming and Pow-wow festivals.
- Clarksville Point:
- Type of projectile point dated to the early eighteenth century; found at sites in North Carolina Piedmont as well as Monasukapanough.
- Eugenics:
- Movement during the early twentieth century aimed at maintaining genetically pure races; advocated the prohibition of interracial marriages as well as the sterilization of the mentally handicapped.
- Monacan:
- General name for the Indians inhabiting the central Virginia Piedmont; spoke a Siouan language suspected to have originated in the Ohio River Valley; also referred to as Mannakin and Manskin in certain documents.
- Mannahoac:
- Name for the Indians inhabiting the Northern Virginia Piedmont; also Siouan speaking and closely related to the Monacan people.
- Material Culture:
- The tangible possessions of a culture; usually found archaeologically as artifacts.
- Paspahegh:
- Tribe affiliated with the Powhatan Confederacy who resided in the area around Jamestown Island in 1607.
- Pomeiooc:
- Village near the late sixteenth century Roanoke colony on the North Carolina outer banks; used as a model for the drawings of John White that are the only known depiction of Indian domiciles from present-day Virginia or North Carolina.
- Postmold:
- Feature in ground distinguishable by a different soil color; usually in the shape of a circle; decayed remnants of where a post once stood.
- Potomac Creek Pottery:
- Early eighteenth century pottery type found at Monasukapanough.
- Powhatan:
- Confederacy of Indians in the Virginia coastal plain; spoke Algonquian languages not related to the Siouan languages of the Monacans; according to Smith, the Monacans and Powhatans were inveterate enemies.
- Projectile Point:
- Sharpened piece of rock probably used as a spear point or arrowhead.
- Rivanna River:
- River that runs through the middle of Albemarle County and flows into the James River; the Monasukapanough site lies on its bank.
- Saponi:
- Indian group in the Southern Virginia Piedmont; essentially another name for the Monacans.
- Secoton:
- Village used by John White as a model for his drawings; located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
- Tutelo:
- Indian group in the Southern Virginia Piedmont; essentially another name for the Monacans.
- Werowance:
- Powhatan word for a petty chief; usually at the village level.
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